Ibn Hazm Quotes on Mind
Abu Muhammad Ali Ibn Hazm was an Andalusian polymath, jurist, theologian, philosopher, and poet, one of the foremost minds of medieval Islamic Spain. This page collects quotes attributed to Ibn Hazm on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The less reason someone has, the more he fancies himself the most rational and most discerning of all. Ibn Hazm (a. 1064). "رسالة في مداواة النفوس وتهذيب الأخلاق والزهد في الرذائل". in ʾIḥsān ʿAbbās. رسائل ابن حزم . volume 1 (second ed.). المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر. 1987. p. 397.”
كلما نقص العقل توهم صاحبه أنه أوفر الناس عقلا وأكمل ما كان تمييزاً -
“Sciences are like powerful drugs, which suit the strong and exhaust the weak. Likewise, complex sciences enrich a vigorous mind, and keep it off evil, but exhaust the mediocre mind.”
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“The less reason someone has, the more he fancies himself the most rational and most discerning of all.”
Ibn Hazm (a. 1064). "رسالة في مداواة النفوس وتهذيب الأخلاق والزهد في الرذائل". in ʾIḥsān ʿAbbās. رسائل ابن حزم . volume 1 (second ed.). المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر. 1987. p. 397. -
“There is no worse calamity for science and for scholarship than those intruders who are foreign to them. They are ignorant and yet think they know; they ruin everything whilst convinced they are fixing all.”
itab al-Akhlaq wa’l Siyar p: 22 -
“ibn Hazm's style of ending a work, in Salim al-Hassani, Ibn Hazm’s Philosophy and Thoughts on Science”
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